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Someone remarked: "The opposite of friendship is death." Melodramatic, I thought. But also true, up to a point. Death has many opposites, and so does friendship. At a lower metaphysical level, the opposite of friendship is loneliness, or isolation, or narcissism--all of which of course can be lethal. You...
It is true that friendship is sometimes an exercise in compartmentalizing. We have all been friends with A. and with B., even though A. and B. hate each other. But to have one compartment for a friend who is a survivor of death camps and another compartment for one of...
And why wouldn't they do any and all of those things? What Shalala called "flaws and loopholes" sound like precisely the reasons why Republicans and drug companies found the bill tolerable.
But it still won't be fast enough. If spring 2001 is indeed to be a season of recession, Alan Greenspan will have already waded in and out by the time the Bush tax cut gets to the negotiating phase. And if the landing is soft after all, then Greenspan...
Greenspan has told Congress debt reduction would be first on his economic wish list. Deficit reduction was his idea in 1993, and now that there's no deficit he'd like the next president to continue to whittle down the national debt for the same reasons: lower long-term interest...